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Where's an asteroid extinction event when you need one?

Mmmm, well when it comes to retirement age it could just be that the Aussies still know how to count and the French don't.

Face/status - the all-important ingredients in a rigidly hierarchical society.

Meanwhile on the other side of the world in a country with a long history of authoritarian centralism & welfarism-gone-mad, the French are rioting in the streets because the government wants to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

At this stage it looks like the Ukrainian Blitzkrieg will follow rather than precede a Russian collapse.

Well as a gay I can't help noticing he's far and away the most hansum man in the room.

Interesting use of the word 'democratic' in the phrase "the democratic regime of government" ...

Virtuous after the fact. Better late than never, I guess.

My b/f told me back in 2011-2012 period - when he was doing his conscription service - that, when ORDERED by the officers to vote Yellow in whatever national election it was, "We poor Isaan boys knew what was what and we all voted Red". A lesson there on preparatory work to be done by MF & other progressives if mass protests are likely ...

Ukrainian joke, as reported in Le Monde: 2021: Russian army second in the world 2022: Russian army second in Ukraine 2023: Russian army second in Russia

The obvious question is: What's in it? What chemicals? minerals? manufactured vitamins? sugars? sodium? soy? MSG? ... Yeah, right, sounds really healthy.

Only in Thailand (or any other Third World country). Attending school is like visiting the Titanic.

Hear! Hear!

Yes, adventurous people could visit Bangkok instead of the 'Titanic'.

The main fault line in Thailand passes through the Office for Enforcing Building Codes.

So on Day 1 they all gather in one big room. And by Day 15 they are to have elected a Speaker?

Yes but it'll take a lot of time to achieve that - digging, considering, answering dinosaur wails, deciding ...

But that would mean that thousands upon thousands of bureaucrats would be out of a job. And those that remained would be terribly overworked ...

Let's look on the dark side (so we can only be pleasantly surprised): (1) MF will disappoint its supporters because it won't be able to implement even 10% of what it wants to do (2) MF's opponents will still be unhappy because they hate the thought of MF being in power for even 1 day.

The particular example mentioned above is understandable but - in general - political leaders should be able to shape and move the expectations & understandings of their followers. It's called leadership, not well-known - except in a negative way - in this country.

All good as to intentions. The doing of it will be long-term and hard, requiring plenty of tech-savvy officials. We can only cheer them on.

(1) So where does lactose intolerance (supposed to be high in Asia) fit in to the good doctor's propaganda? (My Thai Khmer family watch me in astonishment as I drink milk & apply butter to my toast & yoghurt to a meal.) (2) I read somewhere long ago that height is mostly dictated by the quality & quantity of food in the first 2 or 3 years of life. Examples: Melbourne friends of mine where the 2 boys were breast-fed by their mother for as long as they wanted, which turned out to be age 4. Of course they were then eating other foodstuffs as well but they were happy to come for a suckle from time to time. They are now in their 30s, the older one some 6'3", the younger one 6'6". Second example: a girl in my peasant family here whose slightly dotty mother has been stuffing her with milk and all foods practically from the day she was born. Now at age 8 she towers over her peers, has a very large head & has started her periods ...

In unity there is strength. And in disunity ...

The trouble is that practically noone amongst all those wunnerful Thais will raise a finger to change anything. Except maybe MFP, if they get the chance ...

If you're in favour of Thailand moving forward from the 1990s (and in some parts from the 1960s), the numbers above on which MPs-elect are under review are fairly reassuring.